Just watched Maddow’s interview with Santorum in its entirety— start to finish. It was a real eye-opener for me because of the stark contrast to last week’s Trump interview on Morning Joe. I couldn’t finish that Trump interview, it was so awful I had to turn it off. Listening to Trump is just torture— nails on a chalkboard. Santorum is 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but he’s (mostly) civil. Trump is also 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but there’s nothing civil about Trump.

When I think about all those other candidates (Jeb, Christie, Perry, Huckabee, Jindahl, Rubio, Walker, Rand, Graham, Carson, Kasich) sure all of them are totally smug and totally stupid. But NONE of them are as dreadfully nauseating as Trump. He’s truly in a class of his own.

I don’t think I’m alone on this. If he’s the nominee, the party is doomed.